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28 Arrests Expected
Man Seriously
Injured In Fight
A total of seven arrests on 28
warrants are expected this week by
“the Kings Mountain Police
| Deparimapt following a fight =
Thursday hight which left tied.
people hy one of whom re-
mains in Gaston Memorial
Hospital with serious injuries.
Lt. Richard Reynolds arrested
the first suspect Tuesday, a 17-
year-old Bssemer City youth on
three warrants for assault with
deadly weapon with intent to kill,
inflicting serious injury. Two more
warrants are being issued for two
suspects on similar charges. Police
cer Sgt. Raymond Garris that he
tried to leave the scene but some-
oie threw an object which went
through the open window, of the
‘driver's side and hit his head. |
Sparrow lost control of his truck
and wrecked. The fleeing truck
occupants were surrounded, the
windows smashed and the occu-
pants forced outside, according to
police. "The suspects were using
everything from baseball bats to
2x4's, to tree limbs, to sticks and
nails taped on a hatchet," said
Reynolds.
After the beating, the suspects
are serving warrants charging four fled and Sparrow lay beaten on the
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Thursday, June 14, 1990
Protesting property owners have
apparently won their fight against
city council's plans to put up a high
powered-electric sub-station on
Deal and Parker Streets.
The city council's utilities com-
mittee voted unanimously Tuesday
night to reject a proposal recom-
mended by engineers to build, vot-
ing instead to upgrade the city's
present electric substation on
Gaston Street with appropriatead
bond monies.
The proposed 12,000-volt sub-
station was suggested by engineers
to take advantage of tapping on to
Duke Power's 100KV transmis-
sion lines and to handle future
growth in the city, especially in the
west side, for the next 10 years.
The committee's decision took
about 15 minutes and applause
from 10 property owners in the au-
dience. The action followed several
months of controversy which
brought petitions and threats of le-
gal action against the city and
Duke Power by property owners
opposed to towers in the Davidson
Park area.
Chairman Al Moretz also pro-
posed-and committice members
Elvin Green and Fred Finger ap-
proved- recommendation to coun-
cil to pass a special ordinance for
capital improvements in the electri-
cal system and include funds in the
budget each year so that "when the
time comes” a new sub-station can
be built" tz said the new sub-
‘ ost the city ‘an extra
Projects
The Kings Mountain Board of {
Education Monday night selected |
architects for its next two major
building | projects,
inted Orkan an
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Associates of Yelotte to desi
the East School building project and’ |
Holland, Hamrick and Associates of |
Shelby to work on additions at
Bethware School.
Supt. Bob McRae said Orkan de-
signed the Grover project, which is
in the beginning stages, and a simi-
lar design is expected at East, The
board also expects cost of the East
project to be about the same ($1.1
million) as the Grover project.
McRae said the company may have
a recommendation on the placement
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$185,000. "Money is tight,” he
said.
* Moretz said that Duke Power,
the city's wholesale supplier of
electricity, estimated that the cur
rent substation on Gaston Strect
should be able to handle the city's
electric needs in the near future.
After the meeting, property owii-
ers in the Edgemont Drive and
Sims Street area said they were
pleased at the decision. Ciiy
Council usually follows recom-
. mendations of the Utilites commit-
tee and will vote on the recom-
mendation at the June 26 meeting.
Three members of Council com-
pose the commitice. :
"We appreciate the committee
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other people ages 16-22 with aid-
ing and abetting and injury to per-
sonal property.
Reynolds said that, according to
his investigation, Joe Cody, 20, his
half brother, Bart Truesdale, 20,
and their friend, Eric Sparrow, 19,
drove in Sparrow's truck to North
School Thursday night, where
Cody had arranged a meeting for
Truesdale with a man he had had
been reportedly feuding with for
several months. When the trio ar-
rived at the school they found a
truck full of 10 males and one fe-
male.
Sparrow, who was found injured
and lying on the grass at the school
at 9:30 p.m., told investigating offi-
ground. Truesdale and Cody called
for help, Reynolds said.
The three injured were taken to
Kings Mountain Hospital. Cody
was treated for neck injuries and
dismissed from the hospital.
Truesdale was transferred to Mercy
Hospital at Charlotte but is now
out of the hospital. Reynolds said
Truesdale may be returning to the
hospital for treatment of a trauma-
tized kidney. Sparrow was trans-
ferred to Gaston Memorial
Hospital and underwent surgery
twice during the weekend. He has
been moved from the Intensive
Care Unit to a room and is improv-
ing and able to have visitors, mem-
bers of his family said.
UF Allocation Meeting
Tuesday At First Union
The allocation meeting for the
1990 Kings Mountain United Fund
campaign will be held Tuesday
from 6:30 until 8:30 p.m. at First
Union National Bank's second
floor conference room, announces
UF President Ruby Alexander.
Alexander said that 16 agencies
are scheduled for appointments,
with officers and directors, begin-
ning at.6:30. Agency programs
and requested will be outlined.
The schedule kicks off at 6:30
p.m. with American Red Cross
and KM Rescue Squad representa-
tives, continues at 6:45 p.m. with
Grover Rescue Squad and Girl
Scouts, KM Ministerial
Association and Cleveland
Vocational Industries will report at
7 p.m., Child Abuse Prevention
agency and Hospice representa-
tives will report at 7:15 p.m.,
Cleveland County Shelter Home
and Cleveland County Mental
Health Association representatives
will report at 7:30 p.m., CODAP
and Boys Club representatives at
7:45 p.m., Boy Scouts and
Salvation Army representatives at
8 p.m. and Cleveland County
Abuse Prevention Council and KM
Literacy Council representatives
will conclude the meeting at 8:15
p.m.
After the allocation meeting, di-
rectors and officers will meet at a
later date to set the campaign goal.
Kings Mountain residents con-
tributed over $100,000 to the
United Fund last year.
Coordinating the allocation
meeting are Alexander, assisted by
outgoing president Bob McRae.
Ronnie Wilson will serve as chair-
man.
Other officers and directors are
C. A. Allison, Marvin Chappell,
Gene Dotson, Jim Harry, Huitt
Reep, Richard Sari, Dr. Martin
Stallings, Lib Stewart, Joe
Strzkalski, Tom Tate, Wade Tyner,
Gary Whitaker, Lavon Strickland,
John Moss, Glenn Anderson, Glee
Bridges, Milton Colburn, Bill
Davis, Charles Hamilton, Mike
Huffman, David Neisler, Dr.
George Plonk, Ernest Rome,
Mayor Kyle Smith, Odus Smith,
Bill Subler, Sandra Wilson, George
Wood and Tommy Bennett.
KM IN VIDEO-Marcia Quenville, left, executive producer of
ARCOM, Loretta Cozart, executive director of Kings Mountain
Chamber of Commerce, Curtis Gaston and Bill Burt, videogra-
phers, shoot footage for a video on Kings Mountain which the
Chamber of Commerce will use for promotional activities and will
sion and Share
8 his the “skillful and
of the East building at the July
board meeting.
"While this project will be simi-
lar to Grover, we want to give East |
School teachers a chance to look at
premier July 12 at 7 p.m. at City
Hall.
KM Chamber Of Commerce
Shooting Video Around City
Kings Mountain Chamber of
Commerce is putting Kings
Mountain in the movies.
Wednesday, Chamber Executive
Director Loretta Cozart and camera
crews from ARCOM were shoot-
ing footage in the Kings Mountain
area.
The Chamber will use the video
for promotional activities to sell’
Kings Mountain as a good place to
live, work and rear families, said
Cozart.
"We want to show our assets,
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NEW SITE OF BANK - Officers of Carolina State Bank broke
ground for the bank site in Shelby this week. Pictured, left to right,
are Charlie Harry, Jim Rose, Dennis Beam, Millie Keeter Spangler,
Carl Dedmon, Tom Ellis, Larry Hamrick and John Godbold. The
Carolina State Bank branch in Rings Mountain will be on East Gold
Street.
the plans this summer," McRae
said. "We want to make sure they
have some input."
School employees are currently
clearing out the old administration
building at Grover which houses the
principal's office and library. As
soon as all material is cleared out
the building will be demolished and
a new building which includes ad-
ministration offices, library, cafete-
ria/multi-purpose area and five
classrooms will be constructed.
McRae said plans at Bethware
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the progress in our quest for ex-
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Carolina State Bank
Announces Local Site
John Godbold, President of
Carolina State Bank, announced to-
day the site selection for the Shelby
office of Cleveland County's newest
bank. The new bank will be located
at 316 South Lafayette Street be-
tween Old Stone Savings Bank and
Shelby Jewelry and Loan Co.
"This location gives us a strong
uptown presence," Godbold said.
"We are committed to be a part of
the uptown Shelby business com-
munity."
Carolina State Bank previously
announced its site location for its
Kings Mountain office, It will be on
East Gold Street across from the
Kings Mountain Post Office. The
bank will open both offices simulta-
neously, being only the second time
in North Carolina banking history
that a start up bank has opened with
multiple offices.
The bank anticipates construc-
tion to begin in July with an open-
ing date in the first quarter of 1991.
The local firm of Holland, Hamrick
and Associates has been awarded
the architectural contract.
Carolina State Bank announced
in mid-April that it had raised the
necessary capital of $6,050,000 re-
quired by the State Banking
Commission. Though the bank hag
achieved its minimum capi
quirement, stock sales will ¢
for a limited period.
Carolina State Bank will
first new community bank to oj.
in Cleveland County in over 67
years.
Overloaded Circuits KO Power
Overloaded circuits were blamed
for Thursday and Friday power
outages from the hospital at West
King to Sharon Streets, city offi-
cials say.
"The weather was hot both days
and folks were using their air-con.
ditioners more," said city engineer
Tom Howard.
Electrical crews led by Utilities
Supt. Jimmy Maney restored pow-
er in three hours on Thursday and
in 1 1/2 hours Friday, Howard said.
Power went off at 5 p.m. Thursday
and at 2:30 p.m, Friday, he said.